Months ago, my friend, CEO of a food conglomerate, started posting about Covid 19. Before it was an issue here. Then he put something on facebook about keeping things in proportion and what Corona would mean to us.
Some of you may remember it. https://www.volcanocafe.org/you-and-corona/
He was pretty much on point.
Anyway. He posted a couple of days ago with this
"
Food and Covid-19
Hello everyone, my name is Carl Rehnberg, as some of you know my daytime job is as the CEO of multi-national food company. This might surprise many, most see me as a geophysicist (volcanologist), but that is nowadays just a hobby.
Now let us talk about starvation and Covid-19. We operate 4 factories in 4 different countries, all are closed due to Covid-19. The same goes for most multi-national food companies.
Every day I go to work I see the available food supply dwindle, currently it is half of what it used to be. I guess that sounds like boring statistics, it is not. Every day I worry. If anyone is interested, I can discuss the minutia of it ad nauseam.
For the last couple of years, the food industry has become ever more open with the problem that there is not enough surplus food in the world to manage a larger crisis. In the seventy’s humanity had roughly 6 months of surplus food, the same figure for 2019 was 2 weeks.
The difference is due to many things. An exploding world population, soil erosion, climate change, pollution, the list just goes on.
Those two weeks of surplus food is now gone, and it will take a full growing cycle to return to that number, if it is even possible. Instead we now have shortages in the supply chain. So far that shortage is out on the container and ships level, but it will soon be in the distribution hubs, and after that your stores will run dry.
If the entire food industry opened up fully tomorrow that is where we would end up, with temporary shortages, but nobody would starve.
But next week we are in trouble, a couple of more weeks and people will start starving on a broader scale. 3 weeks after that people will start to die from starvation and malnutrition, and that is in the industrialised world.
At the same time as Covid-19 is ravaging human’s, pigs are ravaged by the African Swine Fever. And, even though it does not transmit to humans many will die from that too, the projection is that 50 percent of our porky friends will die from it. Pork prices are already up 100 percent.
Anyway, I just wanted to tell you about the other side of the coin. At the going rate more of you will starve to death than will ever die from Covid-19. Well, unless at least we open up the food industry fully again, on a global scale.
Also, the transports across borders must start to run, otherwise we will not get the food to your table. "
And two days later it's news.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52373888
Worth noting that he thinks that 250 million deaths might be an under-estimate.
Food for thought, excuse the phrase.
Some of you may remember it. https://www.volcanocafe.org/you-and-corona/
He was pretty much on point.
Anyway. He posted a couple of days ago with this
"
Food and Covid-19
Hello everyone, my name is Carl Rehnberg, as some of you know my daytime job is as the CEO of multi-national food company. This might surprise many, most see me as a geophysicist (volcanologist), but that is nowadays just a hobby.
Now let us talk about starvation and Covid-19. We operate 4 factories in 4 different countries, all are closed due to Covid-19. The same goes for most multi-national food companies.
Every day I go to work I see the available food supply dwindle, currently it is half of what it used to be. I guess that sounds like boring statistics, it is not. Every day I worry. If anyone is interested, I can discuss the minutia of it ad nauseam.
For the last couple of years, the food industry has become ever more open with the problem that there is not enough surplus food in the world to manage a larger crisis. In the seventy’s humanity had roughly 6 months of surplus food, the same figure for 2019 was 2 weeks.
The difference is due to many things. An exploding world population, soil erosion, climate change, pollution, the list just goes on.
Those two weeks of surplus food is now gone, and it will take a full growing cycle to return to that number, if it is even possible. Instead we now have shortages in the supply chain. So far that shortage is out on the container and ships level, but it will soon be in the distribution hubs, and after that your stores will run dry.
If the entire food industry opened up fully tomorrow that is where we would end up, with temporary shortages, but nobody would starve.
But next week we are in trouble, a couple of more weeks and people will start starving on a broader scale. 3 weeks after that people will start to die from starvation and malnutrition, and that is in the industrialised world.
At the same time as Covid-19 is ravaging human’s, pigs are ravaged by the African Swine Fever. And, even though it does not transmit to humans many will die from that too, the projection is that 50 percent of our porky friends will die from it. Pork prices are already up 100 percent.
Anyway, I just wanted to tell you about the other side of the coin. At the going rate more of you will starve to death than will ever die from Covid-19. Well, unless at least we open up the food industry fully again, on a global scale.
Also, the transports across borders must start to run, otherwise we will not get the food to your table. "
And two days later it's news.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52373888
Worth noting that he thinks that 250 million deaths might be an under-estimate.
Food for thought, excuse the phrase.
